Eclipse: 3 (Mysterious Powers)

A good teacher is always learning something new. Thesan has loved the stars since she was five. Now the Astronomy professor at Schola she has a wonderful life full of teaching research and all the books and star charts she might ever want. However her late nights and teaching obligations dont allow for much of a personal life. Besides most of the other teachers at Schola are decades older with their own passions and problems.Isembard never expected to find himself as a teacher. A year ago he agreed to teach Protective magics at Schola and act as bodyguard to two children of Council Members. He knows that he should be preparing to challenge for a Council seat himself find a suitable wife and produce children. Teaching at Schola means he can put those decisions off a little longer. Even better Isembard is looking forward to the chance to catch up with his long-time mentor for the first time since the Great War.Thesan and Isembard expect the school year to be the usual mix of teaching and projects along with a rare upcoming solar eclipse. Instead they find themselves dealing with a difficult new teacher bent on returning the school to the 1800s students up to something mysterious and possibly dangerous and the never-ending question of how to get their students to start thinking for themselves.Eclipse is a friends to lovers romance full of astronomy academic politics the question of what makes a good teacher unanticipated magic student dramatic productions and all the things an eclipse reveals. Set in 1924 and 1925 at a magical school off the coast of Wales Eclipse is 110000 words with a happily-ever-after ending.